I tend to put work dir under documents but yeah would be the same having a dev or local dir for code.

Does seem like being funny helps with running for president these days

One reason is that the coreutils in Linux use a lot of hacky or hard to read tricks to improve performance. OpenBSD explicitly wanted to make their source code more legible. FWIW I prefer the Linux approach.

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Nice write up.

I, too, love an em-dash but sometimes you are using them where a comma or semi-colon might read better.

These people should be hung, drawn and quartered

Hey OP there’s this amazing movie called Licorice Pizza from visionary director/auteur Paul Thomas Anderson which you should check out. It’s a 70s period piece drama-comedy about young people struggling to hit personal development milestones - or trying to hit them way too early!

It’s a tasteful look at an odd couple relationship that doesn’t shy away from asking hard questions or being morally ambiguous. Something about it reminded me of the Coen brothers film A Serious Man specifically but it had a similar sense of humour to all their movies. Easily one of the best films of the 2020s for me. As an easter egg for PTA fans it is wild to see Philip Seymoure Hoffman’s son take a leading role when they look so similar and his father featured so heavily in the other PTA movies.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap from last year was a perfect bad movie. Even shoehorning in his aspiring pop star daughter into the movie as herself made it better.

BadMovieBible on youtube might be up your street, OP

I need a GitHub style host for my git projects. They are all toys and I don’t write anything worth collaborating with me on! Anyway my current CV has my GH profile linked to it so that people can see at a glance that I have personal projects/toys and know a range of languages.

One thing I’m going to miss about leaving GH is that I’ve got a few commits in FOSS projects on there like the Gentoo Package Manager, although maybe I can follow them if they move.

my nerd!

Alpine package manager and use of MUSL over glibc are pretty similar to a BSD. Like others have pointed out there are limits to how closely a Linux distro can match the deliberate structure of those distros given the different design philosophy

OpenRC works just fine for me

Dinosaurs would be fun, and would accurately portray canonical

There are a few projects like lima and crossroads (not sure about name, might be crossover) by canonical which create a new user in /home and runs ubuntu “natively” on M series chips.

I’d be tempted to stick with macOS and get an M3, then run linux in a VM with QEMU or whatever. Given your focus on ergonomics I don’t see any other hardware that will match your expectations.

Refurb models come with i5 processor at 3.5Ghz and 4GB RAM but has another slot you can put another chip into (or replace both with 8GB RAM chips). The processor is also replaceable so you could hit a higher clock speed. Everything in a thinkpad is modular including the screen so you can pretty much do what you want with it.

Edit: Yeah, tbf I skimmed over your spec list. Not sure why the apple hardware or the CPU generation is important, especially for the latter where the clock speed is what really matters. Could probably put 16GB RAM in each slot.

Edit2: X1 Carbon or something from that series would probably match the lightweight requirement although they are less modular. No replacing the CPU.

Thinkpad T420

It does get better with some of the more advanced distros. Perversely they are easier to run and maintain. The beginner distros try to hide the complexity to make everything more user friendly but these abstractions can be more confusing than the fundamentals they are hiding.

However there’s nothing people online can do if you don’t find linux interesting enough to do a deep dive on it.

Read someone else saying the vampire coven is like a group of Christian missionaries and that interpretation makes sense